(CAMBRIDGE, MD) – Maryland State Police, with assistance from the Cambridge Police Department, are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Sunday evening in Dorchester County.
Around 8 p.m. last night, officers from the Cambridge Police Department responded to the 600-business block of Pine Street in Cambridge, Maryland, for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located the victim, identified as Virgil E. Simms, 26, of Cambridge, Maryland. He was pronounced deceased on the scene.
Cambridge Police requested the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit assume the lead of the investigation. Troopers from the Easton Barrack and the Special Tactical Assault Team Element (S.T.A.T.E.), crime scene technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division, as well as officers from the Cambridge Police Department and the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office, responded to the scene to assist.
The investigation is active and ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Maryland State Police at 443-783-7230.
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